To provide specially designed instruction to students who require supports needed to meet rigorous requirements in the standard curriculum.
Description Students receive specially designed instruction in a structured Transition Ready with Essential Knowledge (TREK) classroom that utilizes the Essential Elements to address deficits in the areas of behavior, social skills, communication and executive functioning. Through the use of research-based strategies, students receive a continuum of services in an environment that includes visual supports, routines, schedules and organization that moves them to greater independence through levels of learning. Using the tenets of positive behavior supports and reinforcement, students are provided extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to succeed.
Curriculum/Assessment Standard district curriculum Standard state assessment-STAAR Standard state assessment with accommodations-STAAR State accommodated assessment-STAAR A
Staffing 1 teacher/1 teaching assistant
Elementary Students at Acquisition level: 2-8 Students at Maintenance/Fluency level: 1-10 Students at Generalization level: 1-18
Secondary Students at Acquisition level: 2-10 Students at Maintenance/Fluency level: 1-12 Students at Generalization level: 1-23
Entrance Criteria Must be identified by the ARD/IEP committee as a student with a disability and in need of specially designed instruction in the areas of self-regulation behaviors, social interaction, executive functioning and work completion skills and that need a high level of support/monitoring to successfully access the general education curriculum.
Exit Criteria Must be able to perform to be in a more inclusive setting for academic instruction aligned with the standard curriculum with supplementary aids and services. Must be at generalization level in the appropriate use of replacement behaviors, and understanding of social cues and conventions across settings and require a low level of interventions and monitoring.
Purpose
To provide specially designed instruction to students who require supports needed to meet rigorous requirements in the standard curriculum.Description
Students receive specially designed instruction in a structured Transition Ready with Essential Knowledge (TREK) classroom that utilizes the Essential Elements to address deficits in the areas of behavior, social skills, communication and executive functioning. Through the use of research-based strategies, students receive a continuum of services in an environment that includes visual supports, routines, schedules and organization that moves them to greater independence through levels of learning. Using the tenets of positive behavior supports and reinforcement, students are provided extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to succeed.
Curriculum/Assessment
Standard district curriculum
Standard state assessment-STAAR
Standard state assessment with accommodations-STAAR
State accommodated assessment-STAAR A
Staffing
1 teacher/1 teaching assistant
Elementary
Students at Acquisition level: 2-8
Students at Maintenance/Fluency level: 1-10
Students at Generalization level: 1-18
Secondary
Students at Acquisition level: 2-10
Students at Maintenance/Fluency level: 1-12
Students at Generalization level: 1-23
Entrance Criteria
Must be identified by the ARD/IEP committee as a student with a disability and in need of specially designed instruction in the areas of self-regulation behaviors, social interaction, executive functioning and work completion skills and that need a high level of support/monitoring to successfully access the general education curriculum.
Exit Criteria
Must be able to perform to be in a more inclusive setting for academic instruction aligned with the standard curriculum with supplementary aids and services. Must be at generalization level in the appropriate use of replacement behaviors, and understanding of social cues and conventions across settings and require a low level of interventions and monitoring.
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